Italian organist and composer. He was second organist and priest at Genoa Cathedral about 1610. He later seems to have worked at S Maria delle Vigne, Genoa, before resuming his post at the cathedral on 21 July 1648. He was succeeded there on 13 March 1651, perhaps because he had died.
Source: Sergio Martinotti: Giovanni Battista Strata quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 05 February 2010
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